"Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction."

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Source : Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

Joe Haldeman

#Purpose Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Company Quotes

“I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.”
“I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.”
“People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.”
“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”
“Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.”
“The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.”
“I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.”
“People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.”

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